Various oligarchs are rising their own private armies, Gazprom has multiple now.
If Russia is as weak as they claim, secretly funding those could be how the CIA takes Putin out. Instead of the stick approach of stealing all the millionaire's yachts and bank accounts, go for the carrot and bribe them to side with the west.
They're very good at killing each other, like yesterday Russian air defense shot down 2 Russian Mi-8s and 1 Su-34 and probably another 1 friendly aircraft all within just 3 hours (according to Wagner associated sources, that are now indistinguishable from Strelkov in total dooming all the time). If they start literally fighting for power, well, the extended Russian Civil War 1917-1923 killed nearly as many people as the entire WWI anywhere (very roughly speaking, estimates for both vary). Even if relatively few of them from actual combat, many more form murder and just total collapse and the ruthless "economy" of War Communism that alone killed about 5 million civs.
If Russia is as weak as they claim, secretly funding those could be how the CIA takes Putin out. Instead of the stick approach of stealing all the millionaire's yachts and bank accounts, go for the carrot and bribe them to side with the west.
They're very good at killing each other, like yesterday Russian air defense shot down 2 Russian Mi-8s and 1 Su-34 and probably another 1 friendly aircraft all within just 3 hours (according to Wagner associated sources, that are now indistinguishable from Strelkov in total dooming all the time). If they start literally fighting for power, well, the extended Russian Civil War 1917-1923 killed nearly as many people as the entire WWI anywhere (very roughly speaking, estimates for both vary). Even if relatively few of them from actual combat, many more form murder and just total collapse and the ruthless "economy" of War Communism that alone killed about 5 million civs.